Social Justice Comedy
Among other things, the gospels teach us the places and people we are most prejudiced against -- the places we put our greatest, most unreasonable fear and animus -- are also the places ripe for comedy of the best kind.
Read MoreThe "social justice caroling" of this holiday season elucidates many things, including the comedy of Job.
Read MoreIn the true spirit of Mother’s Day, The Comic Lens lifts up perhaps the most audacious peacemaking woman and mother – the most significant peacemaker you may have never heard of -- Zipporah!
Read MoreMay 1 is certainly an appropriate time to lift up a biblical account that is all about procreation, fertility, labor and…labor. Some thoughts on the story, and comedy, of "The Hebrew Midwives", at Exodus 1:8-22.
Read MoreA modern "seriously playful" counterpart to what Jesus was up to, for your consideration, as we enter Holy Week 2014....
Read MoreMy favorite theologian, Walter Wink, most entertainingly demonstrates how Jesus taught his followers to be peacemakers, emerging God's Realm of justice, harmony and joy for all through practical, effective, and hilariously clever acts of intentional non-violence.
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